Posts Tagged ‘SUPERCELL’
BLUNT TALK ABOUT SUPERCELL
I wasn’t aware of it until my publisher, BelleBooks, pointed it out, but May 4th is National Weather Observers Day. And maybe BelleBooks wasn’t aware of it until I mentioned it, but the month of May marks the climatological peak of tornado season (see graphic below). On average, more twisters rip across the U. S.…
Read MoreHow EYEWALL influenced CASCADIA
Of the four novels I’ve had published so far, my first, Eyewall, remains by far the best seller. That’s been a little difficult for me to come to grips with, since I don’t think the book necessarily reflects my best writing. It’s not that it’s bad writing—or it would never have sold as many copies…
Read MoreEl Niño and SUPERCELL (the novel)
Last week I blogged about El Niño and its connection, or lack thereof, to wintry weather in the Deep South. This week I’ll take a look at El Niño and its influence on severe storms–supercells and tornadoes–in the same region. There’s a late-winter/early-spring climatological maximum in Dixie of severe storms (before the focus of the…
Read MoreWHY I DIDN’T COMPLETE MY SUMMER READING LIST
At the beginning of summer I posted a blog detailing my reading goals for the season. Now that the hours of daylight are dwindling and the leaves are starting to don their autumnal hues, I guess it’s time to see how I did. Not that great, it turns out. I had nine books,…
Read MoreMY SUMMER TO-READ LIST
Ever wonder what a thriller writer reads? I obviously can’t answer for every such author, but here’s my to-read list for the next few months. I don’t know if publishers deliberately target this time of year for big releases, but it certainly appears that way, at least this year. To me, it seems like the…
Read MoreA WRITER/METEOROLOGIST’S REVIEW OF SUPERCELL
As many of you know, I’m a meteorologist in novelist’s clothing. (Or is it the other way around?) Well, whatever. I majored in atmospheric science in college and took a couple of courses in creative writing. I think I did fairly well in them (it was a long time ago), even though I recall being…
Read MoreThink EYEWALL Without the Ocean
“Uh oh,” I said to myself, after reading an email from an old friend of mine who lives in the Pacific Northwest. “This could be a problem.” My friend, Barbara, like me, grew up in western Oregon where thunderstorms are few and far between, and supercells—the most violent of all thunderstorms, the kind that spit…
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